THE NEW YORKER retire to spend his evenings about the fireplace, but we are prepared to wager the cinema critic's hat (a most estima- ble bit of haberdashery, we assure you) that h will be seen and heard often. He scarcely will be able to ward off the temptation to make manifest his interest in music which he considers worthy of a hearing, and nobody really hopes that he will do so. B EETHOVEN is becoming a bit of a pest. This observation is in- tended not as a violation of ashes which are unusually well tended by various associations, but as an ill- mannered reflection on the concert programs which are being perpetrated in the name of the immortal Louis. The Moonlight Sonata has, for sev- eral years, been the cue for an imme- diate exodus from any concert hall, but the fact that Beethoven has been dead for a hundred years has made it perfectly proper material for reci- tals. The thirty-two variations, which the mature Beethoven himself con- demned as asininity, are being resur- rect d as a tribute to a great com- poser. Beethoven, who had the in- gratiating habit of throwing anything from imperfect eggs to overdone sweetbreads at irritating visitors, would have hurled a complete table d' hôte at some of the pianists who are exploiting his weaker efforts for their own aggrandizement. An exception may be made for the first concerto, which, in the hands of Carl Friedberg and the Friends of Music, proved to be the first good Beethoven revival of the season.... Yes; we heard the ccMissa Solemnis." In this gracious work, Beethoven is Ii t- erally the pupil of Haydn and Mozart. Here is whimsicality, in no offensive meaning, over a sound musical foun- dation. Not so much can be said for the Choral Fantasia, heard at the same concert. The piano prelude, originally an improvisation, is thick Beethoven, and the ensuing orchestral variations are as dull as most of Beethoven's variations - or anybody else's. The choral outburst at the end is interestIng onl y for its premonition of the last movement of the Ninth Symphony. On this subject there will be more at another time. T HERE WAS another revival at the Friends' concert, and that consisted of the employment of the prin ted score for the soloist. Mr. Friedberg, sensibly, did not load his memory with music that he will be -..*-.< i: / W)}? ; ,. : -:}j ." } , , g ..... i -. ....... LV' " it Jlr.::-..:. . ", .,.'1;... fl':' -"j;-;: .....: t: : ; : 1 .,: . ,..': '.. . n.. . ":: ....:....:..::..,, it '.;.: ;:}è1':"':': =;f ;> " :: f(t" ; :ß':\ r: : ': \ tL.i \ ,::. .., .q" .' \ Z'%:: ;::::).:,.: . ì: * j,,' ,:<.;. .. > **tu;' :\1, , :".. ..: '. ;@f:>>.,::<,:;:d' :;;; Þl :?-'8 ,.' . '''' , .. $ ;o....i -;:......."':-.v-:-- ::-.. h'" ':'\}' i',t.:;)..:,.^ ..... ::= : 1m * "-,,.:;:::.: h.< :.-. :;';:.. ';I!<: :.it.: :;(i %hi -. ': ;:.--:; Lr .:;:o;.:.? : ::. :i{ .... I l.::,:\:::.i >>:=::::-: '.:;":':':.::: .::"." r i :(I. 1.. . :: Steiner-Bruehl Polite solution of acute domestic situation HW HY IS IT" demands one's husband, ((that these socks of mine are always out at the toe?" The diplomatic reply to this question is as follows: ((Why? Because, darling, you don't wear Holeproof socks, which are reinforced at the toe and last much longer." After all, why not wear Holeproofs? They are 35c. to $1. Weber a Heilbroner CLOTHES · SAOES . HABERDASHERY HATS 14 STORES IN THE LOCAL DISTRICT :-:;. '-'.".:/"":\. . -"f:" .;. . .,, :"i. ..;:...... ,. -(-.: ... -:.: __ __ J . .,..t } .. ,:.. _. .:.. ...i :: :ß. .y: %- .... :: .: 5f. -:..-.: _. ..: i;...;.._. .:$.ii% ;..-- .... 45 Wj: itj; :.:'9' "(: "1\0::.:/. .-4f :'J '0 t :,,'S: ";::-. . _... ::".7w r ;.' : ;: :< ;'" .-", ...; -..) -- -';'!- %1i. .::; tJ . .. ..: ü . t .. : t :: < ! .. : . .. % "',, . iiJ